Simon Payne is a video artist whose work has shown in numerous international film festivals, cinemas and art galleries, including Tate Modern, the Serpentine Gallery, The Hermitage, St Petersburg and the London, Edinburgh and Rotterdam Film Festivals. He has written widely on experimental cinema, co-edited the book Kurt Kren: Structural Films (2016) and edited Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship (2020), a posthumous book by A.L. Rees. He is Associate Professor in Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.